by wodenokoto
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- As I recall, Pluto really got into the spotlight, pre-pandemic with the course "Introduction to Computational Thinking with Julia", which as I remember went kinda viral (or maybe just in my bubble)
It was a nice course, I did the first few weeks before life got in the way. It looks like they did one more in 2020 with a focus on COVID:
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s190-introduction-to-computat...
- Pluto is great. I use it all the time. If you like the reactivity/reproducibility but are wedded to Python, you might want to check out Marimo, which is also great. [https://marimo.io/]
It too puts the output of a cell above the code so if you're unable to adapt to things that are different it's also probably not for you.
FWIW, Observable's Notebooks (Javascript) work the same way: output above the code that produces it. [https://observablehq.com/]
I too did not like having the output above the code but got over it pretty quickly. For plots, it's arguably better: usually, I want to see the plot before I see the 15 line invocation of some plot command. The thing that bugs me the most about Pluto now is that it really wants you to only have a single evaluating statement per cell. You have to wrap stuff in "block......end" if you want to e.g. define more than one variable in a cell.
by librasteve
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- This looks like an interesting project, coming from another minority language - Raku - I can see how dogfooding like this is a great way to try and help Julia break into the Python hegemony (yawn) esp. in academic circles. otoh, I am not sure that a pure play Julia notebook thing is long run better than a pure play Python thing (Jupyter ofc).
Yet notebooks are a vital angle for any scripting language. So I guess I would like to see a language neutral notebook platform with pluggable kernels. Meantime Jupyter does that pretty well and, with Raku Inline::Python support for pip modules can be a lot of fun with a Raku kernel, especially with LLM chatbook use cases.
https://raku.land/zef:bduggan/Jupyter::Kernel
- I would love Pluto but am completely put off by the output of a command being shown above the command that creates it. Sure, maybe the whole notebook is reactive, and I shouldn't care, but I still see Pluto as producing something close to a document or web page, which I want to read from top to bottom, and can't do with Pluto. This single feature/problem has kept me away from Pluto
by flexagoon
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- Reactive notebooks are so much better. Using Pluto or Livebook makes you realize how inconvenient and illogical Jupyter is in comparison.
by thetwentyone
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- Pluto has been quite nice for me to use over the last few years and I even host notebooks using the SliderServer to let others run analysis and examples from the web.
by dleeftink
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- Looking forward to using this[0] with Pluto instead of repl! (They just look so cool)
[0]: https://github.com/JuliaPlots/UnicodePlots.jl
- I like Pluto as well, but the project baked in opinionated choices which imo make sense for hosting course notebooks for a class but at the same time make it annoying to use as a tool.
Besides the often commented upon cell outputs that appear above the code and the forced begin/end blocks, Id rather see better control mechanisms for pausing/replaying execution, to have the notebooks play nicely with the existing package environment system instead of being self-contained, and to function outside the browser (eg with VS Code support).
by Majikujanisch
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- Just used it this week for my university course, was one of those exercises that actually were fun and educative.
by whatever1
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- These days it is so easy to just build a full fledged react website with interactive components served locally, personally I just stopped trying to build language specific UIs.
by shibaprasadb
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- Are people using Julia in the industries yet? This looks promising.
- This is great, but people should realize this is only catching up Wolfram Notebook 10 years ago.
- I like Pluto, what is a small annoyance is it creates a new environment in each session and does not reuse by default the root (system) one. But it is easy to fix with a preamble.
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